Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Manipulation — The Card Game
Build melds, reshape the table, outplay everyone
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Thought I would post in celebration of 1 year of my website being online. I've been working on it on and off and currently the website allows users to play Hex, Tumbleweed, Amazons, and Connect 6 against friends or against practice bots. I've been a long time player of some of these games and I felt for a long time that the world could use a few more popular abstract strategy games compared to Chess or Go. If you try it, let me know what you think. I'm always looking for new games or new features to add :)
2025 · abstractboardgames.com · its alternatives →
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A card game based on the CIA's declassified training game
2018 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Wordbots is a long-running side project I've been working on on-and-off for the past ~7 years that I finally feel comfortable enough with to share with the HN community. It's an online tactical card game (inspired by games like Hearthstone and Magic: the Gathering), where players write their own cards in natural language, that gets parsed down to JavaScript. The English-to-JavaScript translation is handled by a semantic parser operating on a hand-crafted CCG grammar – kind of an “old-school” approach in this age of LLMs but one that performs quite well on the very constrained language of…
2023 · app.wordbots.io · its alternatives →
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Play any card games as if you had an actual deck of cards
2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Consensus▲122The social card game where majority rules.
2020 · playconsensus.com · its alternatives →
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Timer travelers fight to escape a rupture in spacetime.
2016 · its alternatives →
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A rude, multiplayer card game, but without the cards
2016 · cardsagainstproximity.tumblr.com · its alternatives →
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One Stack Solitaire is a new unique way to play with cards
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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A Game of Lies, Betrayal and Questionable Strategies
2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Virtual meeting card game - play on Zoom, Meet, Teams
2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Swapple - A daily puzzle game where you transform patterns by swapping rows and columns. Challenge yourself to solve it in as few moves as possible!
2025 · swapple.fuglede.dk · its alternatives →
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2-4 player trick-taking card game with asymmetric powers
2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Chess Twist▲29I continue my experiment of transposing classic games onto an irregular grid. I've previously released variants of minesweeper and checkers. And now I'd like to share my variant of Chess. Chess can be a pretty punishing game, but I thought this was nevertheless a way to make it even more challenging by making it trickier to anticipate your opponent, even though both players still have the same information. From the playtests I've done, that challenge is pretty compelling. It also seems to be more fun at 2 people, where both players keep surprising one another.
2024 · polyreplay.com · its alternatives →
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1v1 card game I missed from my childhood, rebuilt for mobile
Nov 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I built a small browser game inspired by Korean playground marbles—the kind of childhood game also featured in Squid Game. Knock seven marbles out of the ring within six shots. Built with vanilla JavaScript and WebGL 2, with custom physics, mobile tilt controls, and a free-play mode.
Jul 2026 · plan9.kr · its alternatives →
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A card game that proves everyone has a price.
2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Ever felt like you were the designated poker dealer in your friend group? Frustrated with the clunky, old-school home game experience? Well, I did too. Years of playing poker left me wanting more than just shuffling and dealing. That's why two friends and I decided to change the way we play. We've built an app to streamline your home poker games! Think automated dealing, easy chip management, and features to keep things exciting. We're in beta now, so if you love poker nights, we need your help. Check out the app, give us feedback, and let's change the game together!
2024 · smartdealer.poker · its alternatives →
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